Media Listing February 2013

Kenya

1. Kenya: 13 Ethiopians Held in Makindu

The Star February 13, 2013

Thirteen illegal immigrants arrested by police in Makueni on Wednesday night were taken to Makindu law court on Thursday. The Ethiopians aged between 18-35 years appeared before the Makindu Senior Resident Magistrate Michael Kizito to answer charges of being in the country without authorization documents.

Twenty illegal Ethiopian immigrants were yesterday arrested in Nairobi’s Pangani area. Confirming the incident, Starehe police boss Samuel Anampiu said that the twenty were arrested after police launched a crackdown in the area.

Nairobi, Kenya - The shopping malls and market stands of a Somali-dominated suburb in eastern Nairobi have been quieter than usual. Taxi drivers in Eastleigh, a lucrative trade hub known locally as "Little Mogadishu", say business is drying up as Somalis leave Kenya to return home. Somali refugees say they are harassed by Kenyan police, and wrongfully blamed for a wave of attacks that have shaken Kenya in recent months.

5. Fear and flight in Nairobi’s Eastleigh as police accused of harassing refugees

The Guardian February 08, 2013

The men crammed into a small room in Nairobi's Eastleigh neighbourhood interrupt each other constantly, each desperate to tell his own tale of police persecution. Some are refugees, some are Kenyan ethnic Somalis, some are refugee protection officers. They say they are all targets.

The Somali government plans to relocate thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) currently living in Mogadishu to camps on the outskirts of the city, but there are concerns over inadequate government capacity as well as security and access to services in the proposed relocation areas.

IRIN 27 February 2013 - The Somali government plans to relocate thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) currently living in Mogadishu to camps on the outskirts of the city, but there are concerns over inadequate government capacity as well as security and access to services in the proposed relocation areas.

Thousands of Eritrean refugees held a demonstration on Saturday at a camp in northern Ethiopia in support of the actions taken by a dissident army group to bring about democratic change in one of the most repressive nations on earth.

More than 32,000 Sudanese refuges from Blue Nile and South Kordofan states have arrived in refugee camps in western Ethiopia, the UNHCR has said. Natalia Prokopchuk, a public information officer for the UNHCR said in an interview with Sudan Radio Service on Monday from Addis Ababa, that 200 new refugee arrivals were received in Ethiopia.

Israel has admitted that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth control injections, according to a report in Haaretz. An Israeli investigative journalist also found that a majority of the women given these shots say they were administered without their knowledge or consent.

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